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Lehigh Recruits Oberlin College CLO To Replace Retiring GC
Oberlin College's former top in-house attorney has been tapped by Lehigh University to replace its retiring general counsel.
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Longtime Eli Lilly In-House Atty Named Takeda's Global GC
A longtime Eli Lilly & Co. attorney is set to take over as global general counsel at Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. this summer, the company said Tuesday.
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Tonix Pharmaceuticals Recruits Seasoned Industry Atty As GC
Tonix Pharmaceuticals has found as its new general counsel a former Celgene Corp. lawyer involved in that company's integration with Bristol Myers Squibb.
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Law360 Names Attys Who Moved Up The Firm Ranks In Q1
A promotion to partner or election to practice group chair means a slew of new responsibilities and also lots of well-deserved recognition. Law360 reveals the list of attorneys whose commitment to legal excellence earned them highly coveted spots in the law firm leadership ranks. Find out if your old legal friends — or rivals — moved up in the first quarter of the year.
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Virta Health's Diabetes Mission Is Personal For Its GC
Jamie Anderson said it's important to find a mission-driven company to join — and when that mission aligns with an attorney's personal life, it's even more inspiration to work hard and contribute to the success of the business.
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'Anora' Studio Neon Hires FilmNation's Legal Leader As GC
Neon, an American independent film production and distribution company known for films "Anora" and "Parasite," has found a new legal leader in a film industry veteran.
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Holland & Knight Adds Ex-US Trade Rep Attorney To DC Team
The former assistant general counsel in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative has joined Holland & Knight LLP's international trade group.
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Former J&J, Moderna Exec Joins Goodwin Procter In Boston
Goodwin Procter is continuing to grow its resources in the life sciences practice with the recent addition to the Boston office of an attorney who has gone back to private practice after more than seven years as an in-house counsel for Johnson & Johnson and Moderna.
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IBM Privacy Officer Turns To GM For Next In-House Role
A seasoned in-house lawyer who has spent more than three decades at IBM Corp. switched gears Monday to become chief privacy and trust officer at General Motors Co., she said on LinkedIn.
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GC Moves From One Calif. Computer-Related Co. To Another
General counsel Marc Taxay wasted no time when he left computer networking company Arista Networks for the same job at computer tool designer Cadence Design Systems. Taxay left Arista on May 7, and then he reported in a regulatory filing for his new company's annual meeting held the next day.
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Longtime UBS Associate GC Joins Maynard Nexsen In NY
Maynard Nexsen PC announced Tuesday that after over a decade with UBS Financial Services, its longtime associate general counsel of legal and compliance has joined the firm's New York office as a shareholder.
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Associate GC Of University Hospital In NJ Joins Frier Levitt
New Jersey-based national healthcare boutique Frier Levitt has hired a former in-house counsel at University Hospital in Newark this week as a partner in the firm's healthcare practice group.
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DOJ Criminal Division Head Dangles Self-Disclosure 'Carrot'
The U.S. Department of Justice unveiled a revised corporate enforcement policy Monday that offers companies a "clear path" to avoid criminal resolutions when they voluntarily self-disclose misconduct, a boon for American businesses that further scales back the scope of white collar enforcement under the Trump administration.
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Faster Pace, More Stress, On Path To A Summer Associate Gig
The path to securing a summer associate position at a law firm has changed significantly over the past few years, adding new pressures for students reaching for those coveted positions and new challenges for law firms trying to find top talent, according to Law360 Pulse's 2025 Summer Associate Survey.
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What Do Summer Associates Want? These Firms
As the competition to recruit future lawyers heats up, law firms are making summer associate offers earlier than ever. But even as the timeline shifts, law students' favorites have stayed largely the same, according to Law360 Pulse's 2025 Summer Associate Survey.
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AI Is Uncharted Territory In Summer Associate Job Hunt
About 20% of law students used artificial intelligence to assist them with their summer associate job hunt, leaning on the new technology to help navigate new challenges and shifting timelines, according to Law360 Pulse's 2025 Summer Associates Survey.
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Ex-VP Of NBA Legal Joins Barnes & Thornburg's Sports Group
The former vice president of legal and business affairs for the NBA has joined Barnes & Thornburg LLP as a partner in its entertainment, media and sports practice group, leaving his position as chair of Polsinelli PC's sports and entertainment group.
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Motorola GC Steps In As Lumen's New Chief Legal Officer
Denver-based Lumen Technologies has tapped the former general counsel for Motorola Solutions as the company's new top in-house attorney.
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Pierson Ferdinand Adds Ex-FisherBroyles Derivatives Atty
Pierson Ferdinand LLP announced Monday it has added a derivatives-focused corporate partner based in New York and Washington, D.C., and who previously worked at FisherBroyles LLP before Pierson Ferdinand was formed by former partners of the fellow remote-based firm.
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Johns Hopkins Promotes 'Unflappable' Atty To GC
Johns Hopkins University has named its deputy general counsel, a veteran appellate lawyer who was racial justice and equity counsel under the Biden administration, to serve as its top in-house attorney, according to an announcement on Monday.
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Clifford Chance Adds Texas Energy Pro After In-House Roles
Clifford Chance LLP announced Monday that it has expanded its energy and infrastructure financing offerings in the U.S. with a partner who came aboard after a decade filling in-house roles at Cheniere Energy Inc. and Occidental Petroleum Corp.
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King & Spalding Taps Fresenius Medical Care Leader In DC
King & Spalding LLP has rehired Patrick Murphy, a life sciences and healthcare regulatory compliance attorney, who told Law360 Pulse in an interview on Monday that he never lost contact with his former colleagues even after spending a quarter-century working as an in-house attorney.
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Souter's Clerks Remember Him As Humble, Kind And Caring
Former clerks of retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter are heartbroken over the death of a man many of them remember more for his conscientiousness, humility, kindness and disdain for the spotlight than for his undeniable brilliance as a jurist.
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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week
Stories in corporate legal news in the past week include a Fifth Circuit order affirming in part and reversing in part a Texas federal court's decision in a wrongful termination suit against Southwest Airlines, in which in-house attorneys were ordered to undergo "religious liberty training."
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BJ's Wholesale General Counsel Earned $2 Million In FY2024
BJ's Wholesale Club Holdings Inc.'s general counsel received roughly $2 million in total compensation for fiscal year 2024, a Friday public filing says.
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My Nonpracticing Law Job: Recruiter
Self-proclaimed "Lawyer Doula" Danielle Thompson at Major Lindsey shares how she went from Columbia Law School graduate and BigLaw employment associate to a career in legal recruiting — and discovered a passion for advocacy along the way.
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Ask A Mentor: How Do I Balance Social Activism With My Job?
Corporate attorneys pursuing social justice causes outside of work should consider eight guidelines for finding equilibrium between their beliefs and their professional duties and reputation, say Diedrick Graham, Debra Friedman and Simeon Brier at Cozen O'Connor.
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Personality Tests And Machine Learning Applications In Law
Mateusz Kulesza at McDonnell Boehnen looks at potential applications of personality testing based on machine learning techniques for law firms, and the implications this shift could have for lawyers, firms and judges, including how it could make the work of judges and other legal decision-makers much more difficult.
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AI Is Reshaping Lawyering: What To Expect In 2024
The future of lawyering is not about the wholesale replacement of attorneys by artificial intelligence, but as AI handles more of the routine legal work, the role of lawyers will evolve to be more strategic, requiring the development of competencies beyond traditional legal skills, says Colin Levy at Malbek.
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Embrace Active Voice In Legal Writing — In Most Cases
Legal writers should strive to craft sentences in the active voice to promote brevity and avoid ambiguities that can spark litigation, but writing in the passive voice is sometimes appropriate — when it's a moral choice and not a grammatical failure, says Diana Simon at the University of Arizona's James E. Rogers College of Law.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can I Help Associates Turn Down Work?
Marina Portnova at Lowenstein Sandler discusses what partners can do to aid their associates in setting work-life boundaries, especially around after-hours assignment availability.
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How AI Legal Research Tools Are Shifting Law Firm Processes
Although artificial intelligence-powered legal research is ushering in a new era of legal practice that augments human expertise with data-driven insights, it is not without challenges involving privacy, ethics and more, so legal professionals should take steps to ensure AI becomes a reliable partner rather than a source of disruption, says Marly Broudie at SocialEyes Communications.
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Data Source Proliferation Is A Growing E-Discovery Challenge
With the increased usage of collaboration apps and generative artificial intelligence solutions, it's not only important for e-discovery teams to be able to account for hundreds of existing data types today, but they should also be able to add support for new data types quickly — even on the fly if needed, says Oliver Silva at Casepoint.
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Bracing For A Generative AI Revolution In Law
With many legal professionals starting to explore practical uses of generative artificial intelligence in areas such as research, discovery and legal document development, the fundamental principle of human oversight cannot be underscored enough for it to be successful, say Ty Dedmon at Bradley Arant and Paige Hunt at Lighthouse.
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Why I Use ChatGPT To Tell Me Things I Already Know
The legal profession is among the most hesitant to adopt ChatGPT because of its proclivity to provide false information as if it were true, but in a wide variety of situations, lawyers can still be aided by information that is only in the right ballpark, says Robert Plotkin at Blueshift IP.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can I Use Social Media Responsibly?
Leah Kelman at Herrick Feinstein discusses the importance of reasoned judgment and thoughtful process when it comes to newly admitted attorneys' social media use.
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Yada, Yada, Yada: The Magic Of 3 In Legal Writing
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Attorneys should take a cue from U.S. Supreme Court justices and boil their arguments down to three points in their legal briefs and oral advocacy, as the number three is significant in the way we process information, says Diana Simon at University of Arizona.
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How Firms Can Stop Playing Whack-A-Mole With Data Security
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In order to achieve a robust client data protection posture, law firms should focus on adopting a risk-based approach to security, which can be done by assessing gaps, using that data to gain leadership buy-in for the needed changes, and adopting a dynamic and layered approach, says John Smith at Conversant Group.
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5 Life Lessons From Making Partner As A Solo Parent
Laranda Walker at Susman Godfrey, who was raising two small children and working her way to partner when she suddenly lost her husband, shares what fighting to keep her career on track taught her about accepting help, balancing work and family, and discovering new reserves of inner strength.
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Ask A Mentor: How Can I Turn Deferral To My Advantage?
Diana Leiden at Winston & Strawn discusses how first-year associates whose law firm start dates have been deferred can use the downtime to hone their skills, help their communities, and focus on returning to BigLaw with valuable contacts and out-of-the-box insights.